The Effect of using Role- playing to Improve Speaking Skills in The Eighth Grade of Junior High School Sunan Kalijaga

Abstract

Speaking ability is one of the aspects of learning English. Speaking is a challenging ability for eighth graders, therefore this study was conducted to help students develop speaking skills, the researcher adopted one technique, namely role-playing. Role-playing is one strategy that can help students in speaking English. through role-playing, students can understand the material that has been delivered by the teacher. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the use of role-playing strategies to improve students’ English-speaking skills in the eighth grade of SMP Sunan Kalijaga Kepanjen Malang. The researcher used a Quasi-Experimental design. The population in this study were eighth-grade students at SMP Sunan Kalijaga. The researcher chose two groups the experimental and the control groups. In each class, there are 20 students, and before the pretest research was used to determine the students' initial abilities, it turns out that their results are indeed the same. After that the researcher gave treatment, and post-test. The experimental group was taught by using strategy role-playing and the control group was taught by using conventional. After giving treatment, the post-test was conducted in both classes. The results of the study were proven through the calculation of SPSS 25. the average value of students from the experimental group is 80,25 whereas the control group was 73.00. It can be concluded that the experimental group is better than the control group. The experimental and control groups performed the normality test, and the results were normal. So, the researchers used the independent t-test. It could be seen from the results sig (2-tailed) is 0.000< 0.05 and it can be concluded that Ha is accepted. This implies that the use of role-playing strategies in group experiments can indeed increase students' learning scores in speaking English. The conclusion is that there is a significant effect on the use of role-playing strategies in increasing student scores. Based on these findings, it is recommended to English Speaking Lecturers To make it simpler for students to accept the provided material, lecturers must properly plan the teaching and learning process. And for future researchers should be able to use other methods or use additional strategies that can improve students' speaking skills. Keywords: Speaking Skill, Role-playing, Effect